Fingers hurt from playing guitar? Build calluses SECRET revealed!

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

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[@eli_sonora]

Another tip: Play more on an acoustic guitar (if attainable) because acoustic guitar often have high-action strings and are often harder to press down than electric guitars. This way you can make it harder or feel more pain but you'll be building calluses quickly.

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

Elijah Ashli Encarnacion great tip thank you

[@eli_sonora]

@@MasterGuitarFrets you got any tips for a guitar player with sweaty hands? I'm having a really hard time playing or building guitar calluses which I think is because of my sweaty fingers, stupid butter fingers

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

Elijah Ashli Encarnacion maybe a pharmacist can help. Babypowder?

[@justpassnbydontmindme7937]

NO PAIN NO GAINZ!!!!

[@jsolti41]

Thanks for sharing. Beginners take notice👍

[@nnamretlos]

Great tips for beginners,

[@Ricecooker64]

Even before this video I have been building my calluses. And I have to say as an acoustic player, It makes a difference. Everytime I look at my fingers I see a growing musician!

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

Acoustic guitar will definitely build calluses 😊

[@generalawareness101]

I am so depressed because I have tried to learn guitar 17 years ago then I came back in 2021 to be forced to quit for 8 months as I injured myself on the guitar. I have my mobility back, but the pain will always be there to some degree (especially in my fretting hand thumb joints). I have a hereditary problem where my family can't get calluses. When we start to get them our bodies will attack them as we sleep, so go to bed to wake up with baby smooth fingertips (or hands, feet, etc...) as just happened to be this morning. My fingertips are always in pain, red, swollen, and sometimes get infected near the sides of the nail edges, but never calluses. When the pain is really bad, like today, I can't do anything as my fingers have a mind of their own due to the pain. I have tried acoustic, electric. 8s-12s, Silk and Steel strings to 3/4 inch guitars (which would have less tension). With hands that almost fit XS gloves (longest finger is a little longer than an AA battery) this is rough. I am at my wits end owning three guitars with the drive to learn, the will to learn, but without the calluses.

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

Thats terrible and I am sorry to hear. I have no solution to that unfortunately. If you haven’t already tried, tune down the guitar or try a nylon string Spanish style guitar.

[@haydenyork8414]

Hey I'm a York that plays as well!

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

Cool 👍my first name is Jürg a short form of the German name Jürgen.

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

Haha good one, my name is actually Jörg (Joerg oe makes the umlaut ö) spelled Yorc or something like that🙃

[@ILOVEFRIES-q2y]

My fingers hurt so bad, I’m literally bleeding I wanna cry

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

Just take a break and focus on something else for a few days. Practice in slow doses in the future until your fingers condition slowly! no reason to be in pain!

[@ILOVEFRIES-q2y]

@@MasterGuitarFrets Thank you :) God bless you man, thanks for the video and advice 😊

[@crazyrj7189]

I'm your 1000 th subscriber

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

Thanks for the support WOLF congratulation to you👍#1000 is certainly a very cool number. Its also a lot of hard work in this space of guitar related lesson. All the best!😊

[@OJA1965]

I've been playing for about 40 years fairly regularly, and I cannot keep a callus. It is also painful to my fingertips to play for long periods. It always has been. Even when I was playing professionally. I've been playing acoustic only for 10 or 15 years, and still no real calluses.

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

Wow thats something else! Some of us are more fortunate. The more I play the less it hurts. I play mostly electric guitar with 9 gauge. When I switch to my acoustic I can feel it after a moderate session.

[@yamanchauhan4355]

Thx man

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

Your welcome😊

[@Snakefinger1000]

The only exercises we need are to play our guitars every day and split our practice sessions 50/50 between electric and acoustic guitars. Electric guitars have less tension in the strings while a good dreadnaught acoustic guitar with 0012-0053 gauge strings is a good workout for your hands. We need to build up muscle memory in our fingers and hands and the only way you'll build that is by PLAYING. Yes exercises may do that but the memory your muscles need isn't what they get from squeezing your balls. Stretching is good too but don't you think that playing your guitar can provide that stretching by playing it every chance you get? Finally dabbing baby oil on your fingertips and rubbing it in against your thumb will get those callouses nice and hard much faster. I'm 70 and have been playing since 1966 and years of experience have taught me these few pointers.

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

Good points Felixq78. Thank you!

[@generalawareness101]

Sir, you have been playing when I was 1 year old. I need some help, and I am serious. I wrote this to Master Guitar Frets, and I will write this to you as well: I am so depressed because I have tried to learn guitar 17 years ago then I came back in 2021 to be forced to quit for 8 months as I injured myself on the guitar. I have my mobility back, but the pain will always be there to some degree (especially in my fretting hand thumb joints). I have a hereditary problem where my family can't get calluses. When we start to get them our bodies will attack them as we sleep, so go to bed to wake up with baby smooth fingertips (or hands, feet, etc...) as just happened to be this morning. My fingertips are always in pain, red, swollen, and sometimes get infected near the sides of the nail edges, but never calluses. When the pain is really bad, like today, I can't do anything as my fingers have a mind of their own due to the pain. I have tried acoustic, electric. 8s-12s, Silk and Steel strings to 3/4 inch guitars (which would have less tension). With hands that almost fit XS gloves (longest finger is a little longer than an AA battery) this is rough. I am at my wits end owning three guitars with the drive to learn, the will to learn, but without the calluses.

[@DanDoroshDetroitMusic]

Baby oil softens skin and is actually a remedy to soften calluses, not what we're trying to achieve here. Clapton talks about his "secret elixir" to help form calluses. It's just rubbing alcohol but every guitarist has had to go through this period of building good calluses and like you mentioned playing is really the best way. I personally would rather use my time practicing anyhow.

[@rektaman7762]

is it just me? It's weird that I enjoy the pain in my fingers. It already builds calluses and it gives me some kind of satisfaction whenever It press the strings haha. I'm a newbie btw and it's already been a month since I started learning guitar.

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

Good for you! It should make the journey more enjoyable. All the best! If you need lessons check out my channel. If you need something more individual let me know. I might have a lesson for it as well. All free of course just a subscribe is appreciated.

[@lailaoakes1681]

we have the same guitar

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

What guitar did I use in this?

[@lailaoakes1681]

Master Guitar Frets a fender

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

oaksey yt can go wrong with a strat!

[@HedggieChillin]

My problem is i wanna speed through it

[@dolliekatie]

i started playing electric guitar yesterday and my fingertips are ACHING and they sting when i touch them 😭😭 no pain no gain though

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

Just take a rest! Shorten your playing sessions until you build up a tolerance. Be patient and Enjoy the journey

[@Robin-bk2lm]

I like this (I know I"m late) but I hope you've got a better microphone by now. It's difficult to hear you clearly and easily.

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

That was a quick project with my iPhone. Got better gear now😊

[@annehaulkham2294]

I give my sore guitar fingers a break - I pick up my clarinet and fold my bottom lip over my teeth and bite on it! Well.... at least it makes for a painful change. 😂 My lip eventually becomes used to being bitten.... so press on playing those guitar strings.

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

Good plan Anne! Conditioning in increments is the way to go. Wish I could play the clarinet😊

[@Smoky98]

Let me save you 7 minutes of "secret ahead" messages. His "secret" is to practice bending strings to build up calluses.

[@MasterGuitarFrets]

Sorry Man did not wanted to waste your time